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Veggie Salad Lunch

May 14, 2018

I love a Veggie Salad Lunch and this makes an easy lunch filled with vitamins and fiber. All delicious and made up of fresh veggies. Cherry tomatoes Green pepper Green cabbage Cucumber Avocado Onion Celery Lemon Olive Oil Cider Vinegar Salt and Pepper Chop, dice, slice and cut up vegetables to similar size. You can add other things depending on what is in your kitchen! I used a larger knife to cut some of the vegetables because that little paring knife worked well for some things, not so well for others. I cut just a little bit of cabbage and then diced it really small. It almost looked like riced cauliflower when I was done. I would have added carrots and cauliflower if there was some in...

Healthy Dishes to Bring to Potluck

May 7, 2018

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Healthy Potluck Veggie Salad With the warmer weather, it is potluck season. My bike group likes to get together to ride after work and then have a potluck following. One challenge for me is what to bring to the potluck. Over the past few years, I've opted for a veggie salad minus the lettuce. Basically I chop, dice or grate the veggies. Instead of adding it to lettuce, I skip the lettuce and the veggies become the salad. We have several vegetarians who sometimes ride. The challenge becomes the protein. I like to add beans - either chick peas (garbanzo beans), kidney, or black beans for protein. (I rinse them first by running water over them and draining.) Sometimes I'll add a hard boiled egg to top the...

Healthy Snacks

April 30, 2018

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Chris and I have decreed Monday to be recipe day in the Becoming Elli world. Why? Who knows but we like it. Rather than give you a recipe today, I’m going to list some snacks that I enjoy, just to give you some fresh ideas. I try to include protein with my carbs in my healthy snacks. Some fat is usually a good idea too. Here are some healthy snacks that I enjoy: Hummus with sugar snap peas. You can use any vegetable or combination of vegetables you want but I love a snack of sugar snap peas with hummus. Fantastic! A handful of nuts. This works but if you’re too hungry, it’s easy to eat more nuts than you probably want to eat in one...

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Unrolled Cabbage Rolls in the Instant Pot

April 16, 2018

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I figured I'd try some unrolled cabbage rolls because someone was telling me that they are so easy to make. They were right! While my first Instant Pot recipe attempt was yummy, it didn't turn out the way it was supposed to, because I "adjusted" the recipe so many different ways. I usually go grocery shopping on Sunday evening and I wanted to clear out some of the refrigerator before I got back from the store. Since the weather was nice and rainy, I figured a warm, hearty serving of Unrolled Cabbage Rolls would be great. To start, I googled "cabbage, beef, instant pot" and got lots of choices of recipes. Each sounded better than the next. I picked one that sounded good and started sauteing the...

Inside Out Egg Rolls – Healthy and Delicious

March 3, 2018

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I'm always on the look out for delicious recipes that are healthy and easy to make. Inside Out Egg Rolls certainly fill the bill. Finding something that adds important vegetables into my diet while satisfying the "yummy meter" is a win-win. One of my friends from the gym - Angie - posted a recipe that was similar to this. It inspired my version of the Inside Out Egg Rolls and I've made it for the past three weeks in a row. It has become a staple in my household. Each time I've made it a little differently. You can certainly modify this to make it your own! The way I classify this as an Inside Out Egg Roll recipe is the consistency of the finished veggies. While...

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Cooking with Cruciferous Crunch Collection

February 26, 2018

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I picked up this bag of Cruciferous Crunch at Trader Joe's this week. It's made up of shredded and chopped kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, green cabbage, and red cabbage. Trader Joe's did all of the work of shredding the vegetables. Other stores are probably now carrying a similar product but if you have to, you could always make your own crunch collection. This was an impulse buy and it worked out well for me. I basically decided to make some kind of salad or slaw with this. I think you could add to these ingredients or change them without problem. If I had some dried cranberries or dried cherries in the house, I would have added them to the salad too. Slivered almonds or pignon nuts...

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Healthy Chili on a Chilly Day

February 1, 2018

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I love a warm bowl of chili on a chilly day when the weather is beyond brisk and down right cold. Here's my quick and easy go-to chili recipe that I find is both tasty and healthy. I like to use grass fed beef, it has little grease and tastes better to me. I love this on days when the temperature is below freezing outside! Ingredients: 1 Tbsp olive oil 1 medium onion - diced (or chunked) 1 sweet red pepper - diced (or chunked) 1/4 pound of beef 1 (15 oz) can of kidney beans - drained & rinsed 1 can of water (I use the kidney bean can as the measuring can) 1 can of Ro*tel diced tomatoes with chopped green chilies 1 shake of cinnamon Heat the olive oil on medium heat and...

Sardine Salad or How to Get Sardines in Your Diet

January 24, 2018

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The standard health message these days is to eat lots of veggies and try to get oily seafood into your diet a couple times a week. I don’t know if that’s really a healthy diet, but it sounds reasonable, though I’m not sure referring to fish as oily is all that palatable. Oily seafood includes tuna, salmon, and sardines. It seems like every diet or healthy eating book I pick up recommends eating sardines. I usually try to add protein to my salads so making a sardine salad seemed like a good idea. Sardines are not my favorite food. They remind me of eating them on a Saltine cracker, and it’s not my best childhood memory. Maybe I’d like sardines on a cracker now, but I...

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Yummy Sauteed Keto Cabbage

January 15, 2018

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Here’s a recipe I’ve read variations of on different Keto sites. I can’t believe I’m going to say this about a cabbage dish, but I LOVE this recipe. It’s so easy and cabbage is so inexpensive, and it keeps for a long time. This is a great change from making coleslaw or that infamous diet cabbage soup. I’ll write a post about Keto diets later, but a quick definition of Keto is a diet consisting of high fat, moderate protein, and low carbs. If you’re hesitant about eating fat, you’ll have to modify how you make this dish. I think you could make this with olive oil but I’ve never tried it. I’ve written this up using butter but I’ve seen similar recipes that recommend bacon grease...

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High Energy, Easy to Make Protein Oatmeal Balls

January 12, 2018

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I created these as a snack for someone who has food allergies, avoids sugar, and wants protein mixed in with carbs. He uses them as an energy snack. Chris and I tried them on a long run and they work pretty well. Because the balls are small, they're easy to carry for a run and they're easy to eat while on the trail. These oatmeal balls are easy to make and pretty tasty, considering there's not much in them. They are dairy free and sugar free. If you use gluten free oats, they would also be gluten free. I don't use sugar or sweeteners and with the banana, I don't think you need it but if you wanted it sweeter, you could add some honey or whatever...

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Veggie Salad Lunch

Healthy Dishes to Bring to Potluck

Healthy Snacks

Unrolled Cabbage Rolls in the Instant Pot

Inside Out Egg Rolls – Healthy and Delicious

Cooking with Cruciferous Crunch Collection

Healthy Chili on a Chilly Day

Sardine Salad or How to Get Sardines in Your Diet

Yummy Sauteed Keto Cabbage

High Energy, Easy to Make Protein Oatmeal Balls

Beyond the Basic Bowl: Creative Ways to Use Quinoa

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